Broken Paintbrush

So this squad has been done for a while now, but like some of my other projects, it hasn’t had much love on the picture side.

Iron Warrior Chaos Space Marines Troop Squad Two

The banner, a few heads and the mace arm all come from the Chaos Knights kit for fantasy, but work well from my marines. This squad is plasma heavy with a plasma pistol and power fist bearing champion and two plasma gun luggin’ fools. Although these guys do a great deal of damage throughout my games, they usually don’t survive. Inevitably I roll a one when trying to blow up the tank to win the game, and fail my armour save. Oh well, they look cool and pack a punch!

Iron Warrior Troop Squad Two (side View)

Although this squad is “done” I still need to figure out what to paint on the banner and add in the XIVs to the shoulder pads. I often field this squad in a Rhino as one of the attacking squads for any capture objectives missions. This allows me to move the tank 12″ up and still fire both plasma guns into the target while maintaining the protection of the tank.

So here are the promised pictures of my WIP Chaos Warhound Titan. The plans were from the bwc-archive Yahoo Group. I’ve been using various thicknesses of plastic card, foam board and plastic strips. I’ve done some sketching on the model with a Sharpie to get an idea of markings and adjustments to the model.

Front View of the Titan

So far it is really sturdy (and heavy…) so I’m not too worried about it getting knocked around in a game (unlike a paper version).

Titan's Left Side

The back took some work as the paper templates had nothing on the back side. I liked the look of the pipes on the Forge World model and imitated that. Also the vents were built one fin at a time because I couldn’t find anything that fit correctly.

Titan's Back Side

The engine top is from the Manufactorium set cut down to fit inside. This idea was from a project being done on dakka dakka. The wire grid is wielded metal fencing.

top with grid in place

The top is simply set into place so I can easily access the engine when I start painting.

see it still comes off!

Under the shoulders I created a simple mounting for the arms. This is just a PVC pipe joiner with a magnet glued at the end and capped. The arms will them have the matching magnet in a pipe fitting that goes around this stub.

Its arm pit showing the stub (with magnet)

Although the guns would be a fun next step I think it would be best to start building up the feet and legs so this thing can at least stand. I’m still unsure what I’m going to do for the head, I want to do some deamon looking head, but unsure how I would build that (my sculpting isn’t so great). Any ideas would be welcomed!

While I had my camera out I decided to take some pictures of the terminators I’ve nearly finished.  A few more details to finish, the XIVs to paint on and the bases to finish and these bad boys will be done. At that point I will have the entirety of the Renegade Strike Force box built and painted! It will also call for a full army shot as well… time to find a larger area to take pictures…

Iron Warrior Terminators

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Iron Warrior Terminators (from the side)

The Tyranid trophy is a shout out to my little brother who is getting into the hobby with a small but growing brood from the Hive Fleet Behemoth. Although he is just learning the tricks of painting, he is learning fast. Keep a look out for future posts with his work!

Iron Warrior Terminator Showing off Tyranid Trophy

I’ve painted the terminators a bit more colorful than my normal troops. This is expected, seeing as they have more trophies, daemon heads and cool guns. This has been a fun alternative from the silver, gold and bone that has been the focus.

Finally, here are the pictures of my Iron Warrior Defiler. I entered this two weeks ago in a painting competition at my local GW store. This didn’t place, but I had a great time painting it (and the competition gave me a good excuse to finish it!). I didn’t do much conversion to the model, but I did build up a base for it from an old CD. Now that this model is finally built and painted I need to get him into a game and blow away all those silly loyalists!

Iron Warrior Defiler (Front View)

The guns are magnetized so if I later decide to go dual close combat arms or replace the flamer with a havoc, it will be a snap

Iron Warriors Defiler (Right Side View)

I also tried to magnetize the torso to the legs but it was too heavy for my little magnets so I had to pin it. The top still comes off for storage and transportation, but it can’t rotate during a game.

Iron Warriors Defiler (Left Side View)

The base is an old CD that I glued a layer of pink Styrofoam onto. Odds and ends, bits of rock, and the remains of a space marine were all added to this. The legs were pinned to the base when it was all finished so I could paint all the areas that are now a bit out of the way.

Iron Warrios Defiler (Back View, focused on base)

I spent the weekend finishing up the second CSM troops. This squad is led by an AC with a power fist and plamsa pistol (surprised?) and the squad is armed with two meltaguns. I also nearly finished my 5 man squad of terminators!
My traitor guard got some love this weekend as well. I built up 15 lasgun bearing traitors with 60 some left to go!